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1 total messages Started by Kurt Swanson Mon, 04 Jan 1993 10:21
How to deal with newly received articles...
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Author: Kurt Swanson
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 10:21
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When one spends a lot of time reading articles in nn, news articles
may arrive, but nn will not recognize them.  Thus it is very common
that after an nn session, one ought to type 'nn' again in order to be
able to read the new articles.  (Even the lowly rn allows you to
recycle through subscribed groups at the end).  Thus, (having received
not one reply to my previous post), I set out & came up with the
following solution:

#! /bin/sh
while nncheck > /dev/null ; do nn; done

Call this NN.  Thus nn will be cycled until no unread articles remain.
Of course this can be annoying if you intentionally leave unread
articles, but in such case, nncheck, and the ensuing unix shell stuff,
leaves one enough time to ^C out of the loop.  The hardest part is
trying to remember to type NN instead of nn...

Good luck...
-- 
Kurt Swanson, Dept. of Computer Science,
Lunds universitet.  Kurt.Swanson@dna.lth.se
-- 
Kurt Swanson, Dept. of Computer Science,
Lunds universitet.  Kurt.Swanson@dna.lth.se
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